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Human rights defender and scholar Anand Teltumbde is facing the threat of imminent arrest, depending on the outcome of an anticipatory bail application to the Bombay High Court. Read more
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“I Don’t See Any Anti-Caste Movement Today”: Teltumbde
The Wire: April 14, 2019. New Delhi: Noted academic and author of several books on anti-caste, Anand Teltumbde, addressed a public gathering in Delhi on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. Read more
‘What happened to me can happen to anyone’
“I cannot conceive of any reason than my unsparing criticism of government policies that the government picked me to send a message to many who dare to take it on.” Anand Teltumbde in an interview with Syed
He is a prominent anti-Modi intellectual. The Indian government wants him behind bars.
Washington Post article by Niha Masih
In his old life, Anand Teltumbde — one of India’s preeminent scholars on caste — would spend his days teaching students and conducting research.
Now he is just trying to stay out of jail.
In recent months, Teltumbde has been swept up in a government crackdown on lawyers and activists.
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Who is Anand Teltumbde, and why was he arrested recently?
Academic and columnist Anand Teltumbde is not only one of India’s foremost public intellectuals
Bhima Koregaon: Academic Anand Teltumbde gets interim protection from arrest
The Bombay High Court on Monday extended academic Anand Teltumbde’s interim protection from arrest until the next hearing of his plea for anticipatory bail on February 22. Teltumbde is being investigated for his alleged connection with violence that broke out at Bhima Koregaon near Pune in January 2018. The High Court added that in the case of arrest, Teltumbde could be released on bail after providing a bond of Rs 1 lakh. Teltumbde has also been directed to appear before the investigating officer of the case on February 14 and 18. …Read more
BJP govt wants to defame intellectuals: Anand Teltumbde
Q. What is your message to the world? A: The world knows it but the Indians ought to know that none of them are secure — it is not me but the manner in which the entire plot is hatched out of nothing. A policeman can destroy their life with this method…Read more
Academics Demand Dropping Charges Against Teltumbde, Other Activists
Over 600 signatories from major universities in North America and Europe have asked the government to stop the “witch-hunt”.
New Delhi: Over 600 international scholars, from major universities in North America, Europe – including Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Chicago, Penn, Cornell, MIT to Oxford, and the London School of Economics – have signed a statement of support for Anand Teltumbde, and urged the governments of India and Maharashtra to bring the “witch-hunt” to an immediate halt.
Leading American and European academics have signed the statement, expressing deep outrage at the “blatant misuse” of the law to persecute Teltumbde. Signatories include Elizabeth Woods of Yale, Cornel West and Doris Sommer of Harvard, Robin Kelley and Eric Sheppard of UCLA, Mriganka Sur of MIT, and Cindi Katz of the City University of New York. Read more…
From toilet breaks to cancer tests, Bhima Koregaon accused in Pune prison forced to fight for basics
Eighty-year-old Varavara Rao asked for a mattress to sleep on inside Pune’s Yerawada Central Jail last month. He was given extra blankets instead. When his lawyer challenged this in court, the authorities took back the blankets. Read more…
Prof. Teltumbde’s Arrest ‘Illegal’: Pune Court Releases Him On Bail
A Pune City Court has released scholar and civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde on